A Logical Approach to Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Graham Solomon / Edition 1

by David DeVidi, Tim Kenyon

Overview

Graham Solomon, to whom this collection is dedicated, went into hospital for antibiotic treatment of pneumonia in Oc- ber, 2001. Three days later, on Nov. 1, he died of a massive stroke, at the age of 44. Solomon was well liked by those who got the chance to know him—it was a revelation to find out, when helping to sort out his affairs after his death, how many “friends” he had whom he had actually never met, as his email included correspondence with philosophers around the world running sometimes to hundreds of messages. He was well respected in the philosophical community more broadly. He was for several years a member of the editorial board for the Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. While he was employed at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, several of us at the University of Wat- loo always regarded our own department as a sort of second academic home for him. We therefore decided that it would be appropriate to hold a memorial conference in his honour. Thanks to the generous—nancial support of the Humphrey Conference Fund, we were able to do so in May 2003. Many of the papers in this volume were presented at that conf- ence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048168927
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	11/24/2010
Series:	The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science , #69
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Externalism, Anti-Realism, and the KK-Thesis.- Choice Principles in Intuitionistic Set Theory.- Assertion, Proof, and the Axiom of Choice.- Montague’s Modal Completeness Theorem of 1955.- On the Rational Reconstruction of Our Theoretical Knowledge.- Do We have the Right Limitative Theorems?.- Empirical Negation in Intuitionistic Logic.- Negation’s Holiday: Aspectival Dialetheism.- Monism: The One True Logic.